Letters from the future!

Dear Mr. Spoering.

You ruined my life.  I used to be a bright, energetic child with sky-high potential.  Now I'm selling myself to support my crack habit.  The government took my child away and I have nothing left to live for.  How did this come to pass, you ask?  It was you.  You did this to me.  You failed me in math 10, and when my Mother saw my report card, she flipped.  She spat her coffee upon the floor and screamed at me for "throwing my future away".  Father heard her torrent of rage and exclaimed, "that's the last straw!  I want a divorce, devil-woman!"  Well, I won't bore you with all the details (as if you cared!) but from that moment on, my life entered a downward spiral.  As a child of a broken home, I turned to drugs and crime to fill the void in my life, and now here I am at the lowest of lows!  If only you'd been a better teacher, then I wouldn't have been the thorn that drove my parents apart!

You suck.

Sincerely, your ex-student.




Dear Mr. Spoering

You are the spirit of divinity embodied in man.  Like Jesus, but with better hair.  Everything I am, I owe to you.  When I entered your class in grade 10 as a poor unloved orphan, I thought I was doomed to a life of toil and drudgery.  I thought I had no talent and no future.  But you helped me to see my own talent, and encouraged me all the way as I became the BC Matholympic champion!  I then knew that I could do anything.  Now I run a billion-dollar investment firm and have a smokin' hot wife who thinks my brain is sexy.  I never could have done it if you didn't believe in me! 

Attached is a check for $3.14 million dollars.  Just a little token of my appreciation.  God bless you, you saint!

Hugs and kisses, your ex-student.